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That Tesla Data: What It Says and What It Doesn't — The Model S at the Tesla Supercharger in the Interstate 95 service plaza in Milford, Conn. — Elon Musk , the chief executive of Tesla Motors, has now responded in detail to the account of my test drive of his Model S electric car …

Apple Working on Fix for iOS 6.1 Passcode Hack — Looks like the latest version of Apple's iOS mobile operating system brought more than just Siri-enabled movie-ticket purchases and iTunes Match enhancements to the devices on which it runs. — A new vulnerability has been discovered …

Ex-BlackBerry co-CEO Jim Balsillie dumps entire stake — A year ago, Balsillie owned 26.8 million shares of BlackBerry stock. Now he's down to zero. — Jim Balsillie, the former co-CEO of BlackBerry, sold off his entire stake in the company, according to a regulatory filing.

Dropbox is talking to banks about an IPO later this year — Dropbox has been holding meetings with banks about an initial public offering, possibly in the second half of this year, according to sources briefed on the talks. — The market has been waiting for its next hot tech IPOs …

Iceland Wants to Ban Internet Porn — “If we can send a man to the moon, we must be able to tackle porn on the internet.” Those are the now immortal words of Halla Gunnarsdóttir, the political advisor to Iceland's Interior Minister Ögmundur Jónasson. Iceland wants to block all internet porn.

How Graph Search Works for Young People — We recently we announced the limited preview of Graph Search, a privacy aware enhancement to our existing search tool that helps people discover people, places, photos, and other interests that have already been shared with you on Facebook.

Judge throws out Netflix shareholder lawsuit — Netflix Inc won the dismissal of a shareholder lawsuit accusing the dominant U.S. video rental and streaming company of inflating its share price by concealing its rising costs, even as insiders like Chief Executive Reed Hastings sold millions of dollars of stock.

Venturing out — Google grows into a VC power, too — Google is close to becoming the top dog in yet another business sector: venture capital. — The search giant's 4-year-old financing arm, Google Ventures, has quietly become the country's No. 3 most active venture-capital firm, according to a recent report.

Big Plans For CrunchBase — CrunchBase has grown like a tree planted in a quiet corner of the yard and left to do its thing. Six years in, our free and editable industry database gets 1.5 million unique visitors a month and has had 90,000 users create 105,000 companies and 140,000 individual profiles.

Introducing the Kickstarter App for iPhone and iPod Touch — We're excited to announce that the first official Kickstarter app launched in the iTunes Store this morning! It's available for iPhone and iPod Touch, it's free, and you can download it here. — The app is a whole new way to experience Kickstarter.

No “Plan B” for Microsoft's mobile ambitions: CFO — (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp has not made much of a dent in Apple Inc's and Google Inc's domination of mobile computing, but a top executive hinted on Wednesday that it will not stop trying and does not have an alternative strategy.